During a press conference held on June 10, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, John Fees, CEO McDermott International, introduced the mPowerTM modular reactor and described its potential for making a positive impact on American job creation, manufacturing strength, and clean energy development.
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A couple of weeks ago, I met with Marc Gunther, a journalist who is a contributing editor at Fortune magazine and author of four books, at a local coffee shop for a conversation about energy. He has just posted an article describing our meeting and summarizing the conversation. Please forgive my vanity, but I recommend…
Spencer Reiss, who often writes about energy for Wired Magazine, published a review of Gwyneth Cravens’s Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy in the November 20, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The value of this review has already been demonstrated to me – I have received several emails mentioning…
I just read Lester Brown’s guest post at Grist titled Waste of Energy: The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power. Considering the fact that one of Lester’s primary sources is Amory Lovins’s “The Nuclear Illusion” (4.2 MB PDF), I was not at all surprised to recognize some substantial holes in Lester’s logic and data. David Bradish…
There has been a lot of interesting news about atomic energy this past week, a fact that you might have missed if Atomic Insights is a major source of your news. I apologize – sometimes life interferes with blogging. One of the things that has taken up more time than it should have has been…
Natural gas is so abundant that it can supply about 20% of the United States energy demand for the next 100 years before it runs out! (That is my translation of the recent meme being pushed by those new commercials about having a 100 year supply – at current rates of consumption.) A friend just…
Back in February 2007, I noted that there was a lot of interest among businesses that saw an opportunity to make some money by replacing the power output from the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania. That plant currently supplies 70% of the electricity consumed in Lithuania. It is a valuable anchor for the Soviet…
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